Buying from China

The C Virus is a sad situation and should not be held against these Chinese manufacturers.  Most are very good business people and will deal with you right up front.  If you do not recognize this situation than it is to your detriment....

Nice example of how to elide. Look it up. 

You want to talk business practice, fine. Before the Melody I had a SS integrated made in China. Unlike Melody, designed in China. 100% China. Developed a noise within a year. Dealer had to hound them to get any response. Eventually two of them said they would replace my amp, came to my house, heard the problem, promised to do something, then stopped even returning calls. Only Stewart being willing to take a loss for a friend saved me from what would have been my first and only total loss in 30 years in audio.

I never even bring this up until and unless someone is misinformed enough to try and stand up for Chinese business practices. As if being the most prolific industrial pirates on the planet isn't well known enough already. 

And here we go again. 100% accurate information casts CCP in a bad light, some snowflake gets triggered and mods take it down in three, two, one...

If anyone has been paying any attention to the various opinions from the major public health organizations over the last few decades, a pandemic has been considered almost inevitable eventually.
Fast convenient travel of all types for ever-increasing users from expanding locales internationally have made the probability of an opportunistic malady spreading geometrically worldwide almost a given.

What can one do in the short term?  Stay healthy, practice good hygiene.  Wash your hands often.  Avoid large crowds if that's practical.  If someone appears 'ill' near you, keep your distance.  If you don't feel well, don't go to work at your office or wherever (at least until you're sure you're healthy again).  If you don't improve significantly or get worse, then seek help. And keep your wits about you.

All of this ought to be SOP anyway.  Succumbing to abject paranoia ("It's a CCP biowar plot!") is counterproductive and uncalled for.

The Chinese themselves have the most to fear from this outbreak.  Their massive population and population centers have the most reason to be very concerned over this.

It's unlikely that you'll contract any disease from handling objects, unless you're in the habit of licking them....so don't.

...and in the meantime, Don't show up at my door unannounced.

I will shoot you and burn your body.....I hate zombies.

;)  Just kidding....let's keep me that way.. *smirk*

I was wondering how good of a thread this was noticing many pages in such short time, started reading and from China delays it escalated quickly into a political discussion, should we start a political thread?

BTW socialism and communist as social regimes by definition are a little different, in practice, real world examples neither exist, these are just fancy terms and concepts to disguise dictatorship regimes. Stalin and others in Russia, Castro in Cuba, Maduro in Venezuela, Mao Tse Tung (spelling could be wrong don't care to correct me) in China, all the same, populist governments turning into eternal dictatorship to support one person and its close acolytes.

Elaine Chao was born in Taipei which is in Taiwan 🇹🇼- a democratic state, unlike mainland China 🇨🇳 Her father James Chao founded the shipping company in 1964, well after he came to the United States 🇺🇸 in 1958.

“Active philanthropists, James Chao and his wife established the Mulan Foundation in 1984 to provide scholarships to help students in the U.S. and China access higher education and to promote U.S.-China cultural exchanges.[11]

In October 2012, Harvard University announced that Chao and his family foundation would donate $40 million to the Harvard Business School for the construction of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center and the establishment of the Ruth Mulan Chu and James Si-Cheng Chao Family Fellowship Fund.[12] The Center will be a new building dedicated to executive education, the first building at HBS named after a woman and of an Asian surname.[13][14]”